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Research for your professional thesis: how to find academic and professional press articles?

Writing your professional thesis requires you to make a review of literature: by considering the current knowledge on your subject you establish a theoretical framework and provide a context for your reader.

“Academic” press and professional press will be of great use to you for this part of your work. Finding relevant articles requires more than the Internet: the Learning Center’s resources are here for that!

Academic press

Academic journals contain articles that are in-depth accounts of the state of research on a subject.

Some famous titles are Journal of Marketing, Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Journal, Human Resource Management...

In Business Source Complete, type your keywords then launch the search. Once on the results list use the “Refine your results” column on the left to limit your search to “Academic journals” in the “Source Types” section.